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Securitising food; the case of South Asia |
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Mamun Ahmed and Mohammad Atique Rahman are Research Associate/Analyst, respectively at the Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies. In this article they address the on going food crisis and they offer suggestions on a way forward. For their full article please read: http://www.bipss.org.bd/download/BIPSSIB062008.pdf
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IFRC World Disasters Report 2008 |
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The AIDS epidemic is a disaster on many levels. In the most affected countries in sub-Saharan Africa, where prevalence rates reach 20 per cent, development gains are reversed and life expectancy may be halved. For specific groups of marginalized people – injecting drug users, sex workers and men who have sex with men – across the world, HIV rates are on the increase. Yet they often face stigma, criminalization and little, if any, access to HIV prevention and treatment services. As this report explains, HIV is a challenge to the humanitarian world whose task is to improve the lives of vulnerable people and to support them in strengthening their capacities and resilience. Disasters, man-made and ‘natural’, exacerbate other drivers of the epidemic and can also increase people’s vulnerability to infection.
The World Disasters Report 2008 features:
 The challenge of HIV and AIDS
The disaster of HIV
The humanitarian interface: using the HIV lens
HIV and population mobility: reality and myths
Refugees and the impact of war on HIV
Natural disasters: the complex links with HIV
HIV and AIDS funding: where does the money go?
Plus: photos, tables, graphics and index
Published annually since 1993, the World Disasters Report brings together the latest trends, facts and analysis of contemporary crises – whether 'natural' or man-made, quick-onset or chronic.
See commentary/opinion on the World Disaser Report at
www.ifrc.org/Docs/News/opinion08/08062601/index.asp
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The Past is Always Present: The Moros of Mindanao and the Quest for Peace |
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The Past is Always Present: The Moros of Mindanao and the Quest for Peace
Working Paper Series No 99, May 2008
"This working paper will address the following questions. What are the roots of conflict in Mindanao? What is the historical American role in creating the Mindanao problem and what are the implications of current American counter-terrorism efforts for stability and peace? Finally, what prospects does the current peace process hold for a long-term resolution of Moro grievances? What must the government, Moro leaders, and outsiders do to secure Moro welfare and peace in the long-term?"
The author, Dr Astrid S. Tuminez was a part-time Senior Fellow of the Southeast Asian Research Center, City University of Hong Kong, from January 2006-May 2008. She was also Senior Research Associate, Philippine Facilitation Project, United States Institute of Peace, from 2003-2007. Previously, Dr. Tuminez was Director of Research, Alternative Investments, AIG Global Investment; Program Officer, Carnegie Corporation of New York; a consultant to the World Bank; and Moscow director of the Harvard Project on Strengthening Democratic Institutions. She holds a Master’s from Harvard University and a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
for the article go to http://www.cityu.edu.hk/searc/
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